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Continuing from the radical map changes in the previous version, Dota 6.57 has been released.Here's the changelog.

* Changed how -sd hero selection works. The three heroes are now added as icons to select from your circle of power* Lots of fixes and improvements to the translation capacity of the map* Fixed a few Warcraft 1.20e specific bugs for Chinese community* Some performance improvements (more coming in the near future)* Your Circle of Power now has 6 inventory slots. The items it has are now abilities instead. You cannot pickup items that you don't own with Circle of Power* Items drop on top of your Circle of Power if a unit is not there instead of making a big pile in the center

* Circle of Power is now selected for each player at the start of the game* Added disablehelp for X Marks the Spot* Fixed some issues with the tree layout near the center scourge neutral camp* Slight adjustment of top scourge tower position* Your Circle of Power is more visible than your allies'* Undid the previous minimap change due to concerns from different leagues* Tweaked the bash values on Roshan* Moved Glyph of Fortification from an item to an ability on your Circle of Power to prevent some abuses possible by the enemy* Added Disablehelp for Keeper of the Light's Recall* Added new hero sounds to -quote (Ogre Magi, Techies, Blademaster, Panda) and it now also tells you which number it played if u randomed with it* Changed Windrunner's soundset

* Adjusted neutral pullability area for the Scourge ancients a bit* Fixed camera movement issues when multiple Meepos respawn with Aegis of Immortal* Fixed scoreboard consumables count* Fixed static field doing a small amount more than what the tooltip says* Fixed BKB being droppable after use when it's duration is decreasing* Fixed the text display in -sc* Fixed a bug with Phase Boots and Puck's Phase* Fixed Phase Boots triggering Last Word* Fixed some issues with the creep pathing on the bottom Sentinel wave* Fixed a bug in Death Match that allows you to rebuy the same hero again* Fixed Observer Board not showing up from a reloaded game in -cm* Fixed hero respawn issues in regular dm (not dmap or dmar)* Fixed Dust of Appearance tooltip not showing cooldown* Fixed an old issue with dropping items away from you while under Berserker's Call pull* Prevented Flying Courier from using dust of appearance* Fixed an issue with Dawn Tavern being disabled when repicking in normal mode* Fixed the RD spot not being marked as unexplored for scourge players after the draft phase* Fixed a rare bug with Psionic Trap count limit not being enforced* Fixed a test game only bug that caused the tower deaths to not register properly in single player* Fixed a bug with Aegis of Immortal not setting proper mana on Meepo clones* Fixed some performance related bugs with Admiral Proudmoore* Fixed a bug with Power Treads and Essence Aura* Fixed some minor bugs with the manabase on Primal Split's level 1 and 2 Earth* Fixed Sange sell cost* Fixed some minor issues with Phase Boots* Fixed Kelen's Dagger being undroppable for the same old cooldown values* Fixed Windrunner not appearing in -sd or -ai* Fixed a Drop Items bug with courier and Aegis of Immortal* Fixed a bug in some game modes where Kelen's Dagger had a small chance to not register properly and get disabled on incoming damage* Fixed some rare bugs with the combination of Dispersion and Starfall* Fixed some group selection inconsistencies with Primal Split units* Fixed Windrunner to not cancel your movement command* Fixed Phase Boots from canceling Curse of the Silent* Fixed a bug with X Marks The Spot and Primal Split* Fixed some issues with super creeps (in -sc) getting stuck* Fixed Shackleshot and Nature's Guise to work on Sprout trees* Fixed a recent bug with the -courier command* Fixed Torrent buff icon* Added -cm to -gameinfo* Fixed being able to buy from secret shop from the area above Roshan* Fixed some group selection priority issues with Circle of Power and the shops